Folk | Spring Summer 18 | a preview
In an era where filters, templates and auto focus define image making; where ease & speed is the objective of all creative output, Folk remains strictly relaxed & analogue for...
Featured post
Damien Poulain mural – Eastcastle St store
We are so lucky to work with artists through our collaborative projects, from Alfie Kungu to Tom Hammick, Goss Brothers to Rose Electra Harris. Most recently we completed our second...
Journal
Honest x Folk: An Organic Collaboration
Pearlescent perfumed beauty parlours? Us neither. Honest Skincare’s thistle tinctures and charcoal soaps, on the other hand, should be in all of our washbag arsenal during winter party season low-points...
Folk Protest Jacket
Every serious protestor should have one.
Folk has a new store!
Go west. Life is peaceful there. Off the quieter end of Portobello Road, Notting Hill’s shiniest jewel, branches Golborne Road… a rougher diamond and one of London’s best-loved and...
House Style: Folk x The Conran Shop
Clothes to live in, courtesy of a collaboration between British design icons old & new. Terence Conran once described the lounge as ‘the temple of the soul.’ Fine words from...
Dream Team: Folk x eve
An idea dreamed up between two innovative London-based companies, the Folk x eve collection takes the tired formula of sleepwear and injects design, wit and sophistication to arrive at the most...
Introducing: Channel Autumn Seventeen
The new season has arrived at network Folk. Taking influence from a pre-digital age, where analogue technology created accidental interference and feedback, we celebrate the beauty of the imperfect electronic...
Folk x Goss Brothers
In this week’s journal, Folk founder Cathal McAteer talks with the artist brothers Nick and Phil Goss and the journalist Tamsin Blanchard about the inspiration behind their collaboration together, J.G.Ballard’s...
A Pub Quiz With the Folk Shopkeepers
Folk Windmill Street Welcome to part II of Folk’s Great Windmill Street shop. This week we meet Boris, the retired French dj and box-fresh Morecambe to Jon’s Wise. And because...
Our New Neighbours: La Fromagerie
Folk Womens Store, Lambs Conduit Street In September, Patricia Michelson will bring her world-renowned cheese shop, La Fromagerie to Lamb’s Conduit Street, a stone’s throw from our Folk shops. How...
Don’t cry cos of drizzle, smile for the visual
Koskinen #2 Love by the Koskinen Collective This weekend looks likely to be wet in London. But the Spring showers could totally work in your favour as it means you’ll...
Strippers, Gelato and A Rocking Chair: Folk’s Soho Shop Part 1
I am told in no uncertain terms that if I want to write about Folk’s store in Soho, I need to talk to Jon-and-Boris. They, it transpires, are the guys...
Indian Made Over | The New Restaurant To Visit Near Our Soho Store
Photography: Hugh Johnson Until recently, going for an Indian in London largely meant saucy curries, cheesy naans, oily poppdadoms, and cold Kingfisher beers. Which is all very nice fun and...
Freedom of Movement
We make clothes that are thoroughly versatile - outfits can be created to work in, garments can be styled to go dancing in; our collections reflect the lifestyles that we...
Porto: Our Five Favourite Restaurants
Praia Da Luz, Avenida Brasil Praia da Luz 4150 Wander into Porto and you’re immediately enveloped in narrow streets coloured with the tiles of elegant medieval townhouses. Portugal’s second city...
The Walking Portrait – Robert Green
Following last seasons street wisdom on Bloomsbury with Des Hamilton, comes our night time Soho journey with Robert Green. The respected type designer talks us through the changing face of...